Anamika

First time author Soorina Arora describes her endeavour in the blurb on the book jacket as follows: The book is about birth, a search for an identity, intense emotion, illusion, disillusion, acceptance and death. All pieced together for us to look back and see that we managed because we survived from moment to moment.Even an ordinary life has one extraordinary chapter of love in it. This is Anamika's tale of a pure, but forbidden love, set in newly independent India, an era when romance had a different meaning and the language of romance had a different allure. Perhaps, the content of this book is for everybody who has been ruled by the heart, lost a lover without losing love, asked questions to God and embraced life, knowing it can be enjoyed only in small doses. It is about finding peace through simple things, glimpsing heaven in a beloved pair of eyes and living through the undulating journey of pleasure and pain, with endless gratitude for having experienced life.